Set at the centre of a roughly circular cairn, a small stone burial cist lies collapsed but still largely intact, its thin flags scattered into a drystone ruin measuring just 1.8 metres long and 1.7 metres wide. A cist is a box-like grave formed from flat stone slabs, typically used during the Bronze Age to house a single crouched burial or cremated remains, and this one would originally have formed a neat, sealed chamber before the overlying cairn, the mound of stones heaped above it, gradually gave way over the centuries.